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cc_chapman · 1 month ago

Great information. the only thing I think you left out was Step 9 - Again, stop clicking on links that you don't know what they are *grin*

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Ha! I thought step 2 was pretty blunt though ;)

BmoreKarl · 1 month ago

Thank you. I just subscribed. Hope you do well.
BMoreKarl

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Thanks for subscribing!

cafedave · 1 month ago

A great, accessible summary of what to do - thanks!

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Happy to be helpful!

anjibee · 1 month ago

i was kind of afraid to click the link from your twitter, suspecting that the phishes were so clever now that they were tricking folks by pretending to help them out with anti-phising advice. lol!

i had to change my password to get rid of a stupid daily astrology forecast app awhile back. i didn't know about that revoke access option. i'm gonna go check mine out immediately. thanks, for the info, sweetie!

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Ha! I see your point. Happily I can report that I haven't clicked a bad link yet ;)

Glad I helped and happy to see your face :)

Allen Mireles · 1 month ago

Hey Chel,

Excellent post and timely it would seem--the DM's w/ funky messages are piling up. I'll share this with the poor benighted "phishees" and anyone else who will listen!

Warmly,

(your Twittermate) Allen

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Hey Allen!

Thanks for sharing it around. Happy it might help someone out when they need it :)

QuantumGood · 1 month ago

http://status.twitter.com/post/212318608/resear...
You can be "locked out after trying to reset your password"
Twitter "encourages you not to make changes to your email address, password, or user name during this time."

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Quantum,

As there is zero mention of the phishing scheme in that post I'd say it's unrelated.

I had some problems during this the time they were having issues with this that kept locking me out of my account even without the changes listed. They have since resolved that problem for me. I'm not sure if that's Twitter wide resolution.

As always, take these steps if you're comfortable with them. If you aren't, then don't. At the very least contact Twitter to alert them you've been hacked.

I'd follow the steps above to prevent the DMs from spreading to other users which creates a bigger problem.

-Chel

Suzanne Vara · 1 month ago

Great information as people have been warned and when they end up on lists that they do not want to be on there is no crying.

I cannot believe that people click links even from people that they know that seem out of character or suspicious.

Thanks for the reminder and info.

danieljohnsonjr · 1 month ago

In Tweetdeck, when you click on bit.ly links, it will preview the link so you can see what it's shortened from, before proceeding. I'm not sure if that's a default setting or one I changed to make so. In fact, adding the plus sign (+) after any bit.ly link takes you to the Info page.

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Yep, as long as your signed into bit.ly via Tweetdeck it'll put that option in place for you. I'm not sure if you need to remain signed into bit.ly as well in your browser.

ejswensson · 1 month ago

I may not have been hacked but only received some of these DM's. How do you know? I noticed them 2-3 days ago, never clicked on them, do not get repeats.

chelpixie · 1 month ago

Check your sent DM regularly. If you see something that you didn't send and it reads spamy then you've probably been hacked.

And don't click on them and you should be fine ;)

CathyWebSavvyPR · 1 month ago

Great tips - thanks to @ChrisPenn for RTing the link to this. I saw this post before, and thought I had bookmarked it, but couldn't

' find it. The only thing I would do differently is send the tweet 1st that says yr account has been hacked, then go do all of the rest of the items on the list! The other thing I would do it to reteweet this post out, is that if anyone in your twitter stream did get hacked, they can get themselves out of it.

michaelkennerley · 1 month ago

Oh, How I wish I had seen this about a week earlier. Hundreds of messages about some IQ Quiz were sent out over my name and I didn't know how to stop them. I tweeted for help and some kind soul suggested I change my password. I did that but was locked out of my account and couldn't reach anyone for help. I then opened a new Twitter account with a new name managed to access my old account and one by one followed my previous list. It took a lot of time and the whole experience has been a nightmare.
Had I known what to do I could have saved a lot of time and angst.
Your advice is well taken. Thank you!

prowse · 1 month ago

That darned Imogeen Heap, I just new she was up to no good!